Friday, December 17, 2010

Need a tie or scarf for that special person? Neither do I. But if you do, wouldn't you want something like gonorrhea or ebola virus on it? Of course you would!

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Yes, now fashionable neckware for both sexes comes in an assortment of unpleasant pathogens, including plague, dust mites, and mad cow disease! Also available in not just 1, but 2 types of breast cancer!

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Where do you find these things? They would make great gifts for my classmates or professors. I can see Dr. N sporting the fungi one, and Dr. S sporting the WNV tie. I myself would probably go for the antibody one as I'm a immunology geek at heart. :)

Don't see a teratoma amongst them for my husband though (we're 16+ years down the line from a mediastinal teratoma that was the size of a rugby football by the time treatment started - afp was iro 50,000). I wish I could get the soaps for my daughters - a resp nurse and a paramedic!

Actually, I have the bubonic plague tie (ordered through Infectious Awareables) and it tends to get a lot of attention because everyone wants to guess what it is. Then when I tell them what it is, everyone insists on washing their hands afterwards! LOL.

So I go to the tie site and I'm happily scrolling down the page, considering which would be best for the biologists in my life, when--cue record-scratching noise--the next item is an "episiotomy suturing simulator--set of 3!" This thing is realistic enough to be sold in other sorts of catalogs for--oh, never mind. It's just not cricket to put that on the page with the ties, guys. Not cricket at all.

Okay, I just checked out the link and I am a little disturbed by their "gift items" section. I hope Santa doesn't bring me any of that this year! (I am not in the medical field, nor do I pretend to be.)

Goes along with the Giant Plush Microbes (some of which I want, by the way). I bet some are really pretty and "normal" people might think they're neat looking, until they ask what it is and get all grossed out.

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